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Have you ever searched for another bottle of wine like the one you just enjoyed, only to be unable to find any information? You have called local wine stores, but they don't know the brand. You may have Googled the winery, or checked some of the big wine search engines, such as wineaccess.com or wine-searcher.com, but not found it.
The "Wine Notes" column in last weekend's Wall Street Journal (Sept. 13-14, 2008) suggest going to the U.S Patent and Trademark Office web site to look for the registered trademark. Go to usp.gov, click on trademarks and then search the TM database. There you will find who registered the trademark and when, which could also lead you search online records at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau web site (go to ttbonline.gov/colasonline, then click "public cola registery." I just tried this with a search for a modest California chardonnay I had purchased when lving in the Chicago area, and tracked down a source for it here.
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